ALA/AIA Library Building Awards

Apply for the AIA/ALA Library Building Awards

Deadline: Applications for the 2025 awards open on October 16, 2024 and close on January 8, 2025.

Honors the best in library architecture and design.

This biennial competition is co-sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The awards recognize excellence in the architectural design and planning of libraries. Awards for distinguished accomplishment in library architecture by an architect licensed in the United States will be made for any library in the United States or abroad. The program is managed by Core's Awards for Buildings and Interiors Committee. Core is a division of the American Library Association.

This award is open biennially in odd years, October through January. Winners have been awarded and celebrated at the Annual ALA Conference.

Sponsored by the American Library Association.

Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Past Winners

2025

• News release

• Hilltop Branch Library, Columbus, OH | Gresham Smith, Harris Architects

  Liberty Park Library, Spokane, WA, INTEGRUS

  Merriam Plaza Library, Merriam KS, Dake Wells Architecture

  Pleasant Hill Library, Pleasant, Hill, CA, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

  The State Historical Society of Missouri (SHSHMO) - Center for Missouri Studies, Columbia, MO, Multistudio

  • 2023

    • News release
    • View the slideshow
      • Atherton Library, Atherton, CA | WRNS Studio
      • Louisville Free Public Library Northeast Regional Library, Louisville, KY | MSR Design and JRA Architects
      • Missoula Public Library New Main Library, Missoula, MT | MSR Design and A&E Design
      • Student Success District, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ | The Miller Hull Partnership LLP and Poster Mirto McDonald
      • Woburn Public Library, Woburn, MA | CBT

    2022

    • News release
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      • Adams Street Library, Brooklyn, NY | Work Architecture Company (WORKac)
      • Asante Library, Surprise, AZ | Richärd Kennedy Architects
      • Cruzen-Murray Library, Caldwell, ID | Richärd Kennedy Architects
      • Indian Creek Library, Olathe, KS | Gould Evans
      • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C. | OTJ Architects (Executive Architect), Mecanoo (Design Architect)

    2021

    • News release
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      • Arizona State Library Hayden Library Reinvention, Tempe, Arizona | Ayers Saint Gross
      • Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library Renovation, Boston | Utile, Inc.
      • Sunset Park Library, Brooklyn, New York | Leroy Street Studio Architecture
      • Taylor Street Apartments and Little Italy Branch Library, Chicago | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
      • Valente Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts | William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.